trading assistant

Status
Trading Assistant at
Group/Division/Type
Fixed Income
City
Chicago
Interviewed
March 2011
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Very Easy

General Interview Information

Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
2-3 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Background Check
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
I got an initial call from someone in HR. It was at an inconvenient time so we rescheduled. A few days later we spoke again and got some standard questions like why do you want to trade and about my resume. A few days after that I got an email saying that I had made it to the next round and we set up a call with a senior trader. This call was also very short and consisted of the same type of softball fit qs. I actually thought he didn't like me for some reason and that's why he cut me short before technicals, but really the interview process is just ridiculously easy. I got an email a few days later that I would have a group phone interview with the COO and the president. They also asked the same easy fit questions and seemed to want to brag about their own exploits more than see if I was good. After this call I was invited to interview at their offices. They flew me out and put me up at a nice hotel conveniently located about a 2 minute walk from the office. First I took some math/probability/stats/brainteaser type test which i guess required a bit of thinking but was much easier than this type of thing elsewhere. The hr girl told me at lunch that i absolutely crushed it, for what its worth. Then i had a full day of interviews, sometimes with groups of as many as 4 interviewers, sometimes 1 on 1. The same guys that I had had the call with interviewed me again and had totally forgot about the call, once again just taking the time to brag about how baller they are. Once again, everyone was asking the same easy fit questions. Out of over 10 people I met, only 2 guys asked anything remotely technical and even these were way easier than the ones elsewhere.

So naturally I got an offer. And i accepted it cuz im stupid and rationalized and somehow didn't see it coming from a million miles away that people here were going to be mostly retarded.
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